See, i really care about this girl and she makes me happy. i should have taken my moms advice the other way and stayed with her. when i tried explaining this to my girlfriend she didnt understand and got upset.

i didnt know what to say and we couldnt talk for a long time. she said she was sorry she hung up on me and she let me explain that i was wrong for breaking up with her. she said she was wrong for jumping into a relationship with me before i was ready.

so we are slowly trying to work it out. it is still rocky i am slowly figuring out how to tell her how i feel. she said if i am ever ready i could ask her out again.

yes, i know this topic is very long.
but i still feel really depressed and awful about all this. i need to see a counselor again.
please help me.

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so we are slowly trying to work it out. it is still rocky i am slowly figuring out how to tell her how i feel. she said if i am ever ready i could ask her out again.

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I think that's the key here. It seems feelings got hurt on both sides. You feel you made a mistake and want to make things better. She feels bad for jumping into a relationship too soon. I think a very important thing to do here is to take the blame away. No one should feel bad for this and that. Mistakes happen. Things happen. You can't take back the past, but you look forward to the future.

Keep talking with her and let each other know truly how you both feel. And then see how it's going to work, if it is at all. That's not something you should decide alone. That's not something she should decide alone. It's something you both should decide on while following your hearts.

Don't let people get in the way. It's easy to get led astray when listening to other people. It's one thing to take into consideration what another person says but ultimately make your own decision. It's quite another thing to let someone overshadow your own personal feelings and then make a decision.

Maybe this will work out in time. But that's another key: Time. Don't live in regret but rather accept that something happened and it's not too late to be happy once again.  And time is on your side.  Spend time together as friends and let this relationship build back up.

James.

Basically, they don't want their children to grow up.  They are losing control.  They hate that feeling.  So, they try and give advice that prolongs their 'parental' leadership.  And you not committing to someone is evidence that you're still 'a kid'.  Which is wrong, but maybe an insight as to what it's like being a parent.

Of course, if my girlfriend said to me I have been told not to be committed to you, then I would probably freak out.  I wouldn't want her to be potentially seeing other people, or not feeling like I am the one for her.  So, I can understand your girlfriends reaction, and I think it was inevitable.

You're doing the right thing.  You're building things back up, explaining what happened, so she knows it wasn't your decision but some advice you got that is actually bad advice.  You will repair this, because it's clear you both love and care for each other.  It might take a little time, but you will do it.  I think you will actually be a lot stronger anyway, once this is has been done.  It's bringing you closer together.  Sometimes, as ironic as it sounds, you have to break up and get back together to realise how important you are to each other.  You need that shock to see what life is like without each other.

My advice would be to ask her out again, and get things back on track.  You don't want to be without her, and this wasn't your desire anyway, it was bad advice.  Tell her you realise now that, although your mum says you don't need to be committed to one person, you know now that you only need one person in your life, and it's her.  And you don't ever want to be without her

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The only good thing about breaking up
Is the making up we do after

What I remember from my high school philosophy classes is that a deed that makes you happy is definitely a right thing to do. You were happy when you were together with your girlfriend and now that you have broken up with her you are miserable. I think you should talk to her and try to explain everything to her again, and definitely you should know what you want to do - continue where you two left off or leave her for real.

Being so easily affected by your mother she might be right that you are too young for a relationship, but seeing how seriously you have taken this whole situation I see that you might be mature enough after all.

What I mean to say is that you should think through all this thing I said about being in charge of your own life and then decide what you should do.

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